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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
Poem – John Dickson
a note concerning names the early spring evening was warm and close and while I walked the dog there was grass and trees and a moon and something else in me the intimate safety of names Later, I listened…
Poem – Kate Camp
Admit one Cranes like cranes above the city. The city is a poem that says no matter what boat you take you cannot find the boat to take you from yourself to yourself. The man who is part of…
When Porsche comes to shove, Jane Clifton
The Anti-Economist Papers Paul Bieleski Tandem, $24.95, ISBN 187717856X Here’s a nice rural scene: a passing motorist bets a mustering farmer one sheep that he can guess the exact number of sheep in his flock. When the motorist gets the…
Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Jane Clifton, Paul Bieleski, Tandem
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Catherine Chidgey — work in progress
From a work in progress [Marin and his brother Ivan are living in a rough gumfield whare in the far north of New Zealand around 1900. This section opens with a letter from Marin to his sister.] A strange…
Editorial – Issue 46
Publishers behaving badly Writers can be an ungracious lot. They take offence easily; they rarely apologise or express thanks; even more rarely do they return favours. They are also known to derive as much pleasure from a friend’s literary failure…
1905: A Sports Odyssey, Adrienne Simpson
The Book of Fame Lloyd Jones Penguin, $29.95, ISBN 0140296948 New Zealanders love sport. The truth of this frequently-heard comment is daily demonstrated by the amount of space our newspapers allocate to sporting activities. Success on the cricket pitch, putting…
Tagged with: Adrienne Simpson, December 2000, Issue 46, Lloyd Jones, Penguin
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Experts in avoidance, Emma Neale
Nineteen Widows Under Ash Damien Wilkins Victoria University Press, $29.95, ISBN 086473395X Wilkins’ new novel, set in the United States, begins as Evelyn Herbert undertakes a road journey to her Pacific Northwest hometown. She has left her husband, and…
Tagged with: Damien Wilkins, December 2000, Issue 46, Victoria University Press
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Hello to Berlin, Cilla McQueen
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